Improvement in whip-socket



C. P. KIMBALL. Q Whip. Socket.

No. 98,070. Patented Dec. 21,1869.

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CHARLES P. KIMBALL,

or PORTLAND, MAINE.

Letters Patent No. 98,070, dated December 21, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHIP-SOCKET.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

, and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,

and exact description thereofi'which will enable others to make and use my invention, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a view of a dasher, with my improvement attached.

Figure-2, a detached View of my invention, showing the method of connecting it with the dasher.

Whip-sockets are commonly secured to the dasher by straps passing around or sewed to the socket, and connected with the leather exterior of the dasher, at top and bottom'of the socket.

With such arrangement they are apt to hang loosely, and a more serious objection is the brevity of time these straps will wear, the liability of the leather strap to become Worn and broken, as well as to tear the leather of the dasher itself.

With the view to improve the durability of the socket, aswell as to make it fixed in its position, and. also to make it more ornamental to th"'carriage,;I construct my improved socket as follows:

When the iron fraine of the dasher is made, I construct thereupon, atone ot the vertical side-posts thereof, as at a, a metal ring, 0, having a short, small shank, 'b. This projects horizontally from the part a of the frame, and, as shown, forms part of the same, or is made a part thereof. I This ring may be made of brass, or silvcred, and so constructed as to form an ornamental finish to the ;socket, and the strength with which it is secured can thus be made equal to the strength of the dasherframe.

The socket can also be secured inasimilar manner at the bottom, or fastened by a projecting piece of metal, 01, having an eye, and thus be riveted or screwed to the bottom of the dasher or of the carriage.

\Vhen the socket is worn, it is easily removed, and

another as easily supplied. 1 A- variety of ornamental forms may be given to th outer edge of the ring 0.

I do not-claim a removable socket; but

' What I do clainn'and desire to secure by Letters- Patent, is-

The improved mode of securing whip-sockets, by

means of the ring 0 and its shank 1;, these being made a part of the dasher-t'rame, as and for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES P. KIMBALL. \Vitnesses-z 7M; H; CLIFFORD,

WM. FRANK SEAVEY. 

